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Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:

> and then a question appears in the message buffer "Mail
> source error ([...]) (POP connexion failed). Continue?". No
> mail is ever downloaded, even though sometimes no error mes-
> sage pops up (caching of a failed connection?).

Could it be a timeout problem?  We have a rather slow mail server and (a
long time ago, so I don't remember the details) I had to add the lines
below in ~/.gnus to get around timeout issues:

(setq pop3-read-timeout 2.0)
(setq nnheader-read-timeout 2.0)

Cheers,

--Denys